Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 190891

Nuclear Submarines

Tabled: 22 June 2023
Answered: 27 June 2023
Named Day

Question

Dave Doogan

Scottish National PartyAngus and Perthshire Glens

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department expects service costs for the nuclear deterrent to remain at six per cent.

Answer

James Cartlidge
The six percent figure was calculated for the Defence White Paper “The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent” in December 2006. Due to restructuring of both the Submarine Enterprise and the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, an equivalent comparison i...

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